05 Apr - 02 May - Filmhouse Cinema Edinburgh

Daniel Day-Lewis: Presented by Drambuie
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THE AGE OF INNOCENCE THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS LINCOLN
The Age of Innocence
Thu 25 Apr at 6.10pm
Martin Scorsese • USA 1993 • 2h18m • 35mm • PG
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Richard E
Grant, Geraldine Chaplin.
Adapting an Edith Wharton best-seller might have seemed
a strange choice for Martin Scorsese, but he loved the
book and transferred it to the screen virtually unchanged.
Set in 19th-century New York, The Age of Innocence
centres on lawyer Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis), who
becomes engaged to the beautiful but dull May Welland
(Winona Ryder). His life is soon thrown into turmoil by his
fiancee’s seductive older cousin, Ellen Olenska (Michelle
Pfeiffer), seemingly a woman of ill repute.
In the Name of the Father
Fri 26 Apr at 6.10pm
Jim Sheridan • Ireland/UK/USA 1993 • 2h13m • 35mm • 15
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson,
John Lynch, Corin Redgrave.
The My Left Foot team of star Daniel Day-Lewis and
director Jim Sheridan reunited to make this political
docudrama about Gerry Conlon (Day-Lewis), who was
wrongly convicted of taking part in a 1974 IRA bombing
that killed five. After a brutal interrogation forces him to
sign a false confession, Gerry is sentenced to prison, his
family persecuted, and later his father Giuseppe (Pete
Postelthwaite) is charged with being an accomplice and
is also sent to prison. Day-Lewis gives an outstanding
performance as a man tormented by the injustice served
him, and Emma Thompson is brilliant as the persevering
lawyer who works for years, gathering evidence to clear
Gerry’s name.
A Room with a View
Sun 28 Apr at 6.10pm
James Ivory • UK 1985 • 1h57m • 35mm
PG – Contains infrequent moderate violence and mild sex
Cast: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott,
Julian Sands, Daniel Day-Lewis.
Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by
EM Forster, A Room with a View is a shining example of
Merchant-Ivory’s ability to achieve maximum quality and
opulence at minimum cost. Sheltered Lucy Honeychurch
(Helena Bonham Carter), holidaying in Florence with her
spinster chaperone Charlotte (Maggie Smith), is kissed
by unconventional George Emerson (Julian Sands).
Frightened by her confusing feelings for him, she returns
to England and accepts a marriage proposal from stuffy
Cecil Vyse (Daniel Day-Lewis). When George reappears, she
questions her feelings for Cecil.
The Last of the Mohicans
Mon 29 Apr at 6.10pm
Michael Mann • USA 1992 • 1h54m • 35mm
15 – Contains bloody violence and intense battle scenes
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means.
In 1757, while the French and British are fighting for
control over North America, Cora Munro (Madeleine
Stowe) and her younger sister Alice (Jodhi May), daughters
of a British colonel, are rescued from an Indian attack by
the Colonial-born, Mohican-raised Englishman Hawkeye
(Daniel Day-Lewis). Love soon blooms between Hawkeye
and Cora, but their future is threatened by the French’s
continued assaults on the unstable fort, Colonel Munro’s
distrust of Hawkeye, and the bloodthirsty Huron tribe led
by the vengeful warrior Magua.
Lincoln
Sun 5 May at 1.00pm
Steven Spielberg • USA/India 2012 • 2h30m • Digital projection
12A – Contains infrequent moderate war violence, gore and
strong language
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph
Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Tommy Lee Jones.
Steven Spielberg directs Daniel Day-Lewis in a revealing
drama that focuses on the 16th President’s tumultuous
final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the
strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action
designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish
slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination
to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will
change the fate of generations to come.
The Crucible
Wed 8 May at 5.45pm
Nicholas Hytner • USA 1996 • 2h3m • 35mm • 12A
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen.
Written in the midst of the McCarthy era as a thinly veiled
attack on the Communist witch hunts in the US, Arthur
Miller’s play has emerged as a timeless commentary on the
evil that men (and women) do – especially in the name
of righteousness and religion. Set in the Salem of 1692,
the film finds Abigail Williams (Winona Ryder) triggering a
mass hysteria in which accusations of witchcraft result in
the execution of innocent people; among those targeted
by the moral minority are farmer John Proctor (Daniel Day-
Lewis) and his wife Elizabeth (Joan Allen).
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